It turned out to be a pretty nice day after two days of rain. People were enjoying the weather in trenton. Further north and west in pennsylvania, skiers are hitting the slopes at camelback on how mountain. Now changes are coming. Were talking about cold and snow. And the First Alert Team coverage begins with glenn, hurricane schwartz. This time tomorrow itll be about 20 degrees colder than it is right now. Its 52 degrees right now. Weve been up to 54. Its been close to 60 at the shore. 46 in allentown. You can see the wind arrows out of the west. Gusts over 30 Miles Per Hour bringing some of this air in. Right now the temperature in chicago is 18. 4 in minneapolis, 0 in bismarck. Its not getting to zero here, but look at this arctic air coming straight over us. Weve been telling you about this for more than a week. Here it comes. Youll start feeling it storm. Youll feel it saturday and sunday and even into monday of next week. Only by next tuesday do we start to warm up. Here is an example of what happens. This is tomorrow. Remember, today were 52. There it is. 35 degrees tomorrow afternoon. That may be about our High Temperature. And some parts of our northern and western suburbs Lehigh Valley may not even get above freezing tomorrow. Other areas staying in the 30s. Well see how much colder it will get over the weekend. It will. Coming up in a few minutes. The other issue is the snow. And meteorologist crystal kline has that. We see the temperature drop and some days not above freezing. In the afternoon that means any presip will be in the form of snow. What were seeing an area of snow. Its a wide view but near parts of colorado and now extending into the midwest, were going to track this as we go through the next couple of days here. Watch as we go through tomorrow into tomorrow night. Theres what were looking on radar. Lets put it in motion. This is going to track across the country very quickly. Were at lunchtime tomorrow on your thursday. Not yet seeing the snow move in. Its getting close through the lunch hour. We fast forward into the evening. 8 00 p. M. No snow for us, but now its very close to us sitting to the west. This is going to very quickly move in. So as we go into the overnight, were looking about 10 30 in the evening. Snow showers push in and theyll move throughout the night into your early friday morning. So this is the early hour of 5 00 a. M. Its clearing to the west seeing the snow hanging to parts of philadelphia and new jersey at 5 00 a. M. Early morning commute. Moves out by the late morning commute. This is just one computer model were looking at here. Look at the spread its giving us around 1 inch of snow. Pretty much across all neighborhoods. Well talk more about the snow potential and if we see anymore through the weekend coming up. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with kids cashing in on the soda tax. Hundreds of children in philadelphia began to going to prek for free because the tax City Council Approved last summer. Nbc 10 was there for the first day of school for the young students. Joining us from hunting park. Reporter shoppers may be reeling from the sticker shock of the soda tax. More than half of the money generated will go toward expanding prek at centers like this. And vod candidates hope one look inside makes it worth it. Its back to school for prekindergartens. For about one dozen students, its their First Time Ever in class. Its because of the soda tax. Weve been able to increase in size and serve more kids because of the money we receive through the soda tax money. Reporter the soda tax is allowing all the students to attend preschool for free. Enrollment is up from 44 to nearly 60 students. But the children are not the only ones who benefit. Im fulltime lead teacher. Its a big change. Reporter brigitte is one of four new teachers hired to accommodate the expansion. Before this she was a teachers assistant and worked at an afterschool program. It was more like a transfer from my old job but a better opportunity. Reporter the soda pretax is providing free prek to 2,000 kids across philadelphia. Money from the city means breaking even financially and improving the quality of education for needy students. Besides the parent being the first teacher, we are. You never know how much impact you give a child. Reporter youre going to want to grab something to write with very quickly. There are still Spaces Available at this center and other Centers Across the city. All you have to do is call this phone number. 1844phlprek. The free prek program is getting money from the citys soda tax. But shoppers paying the tax are seeing a little sticker shock. Nbc 10 will explain why the prices could vary depending on where you buy your groceries. The story new at nbc news at 5 00. The Health Care Overall fight heading up in washington. President elect donald trump and Vice President elect mike pence are on the capitol hill. Theyre discussing to do away with the Affordable Care act. A bill has already been introduced to repeal a large portion of the president s signature law. Meanwhile Vice President elect mike pence spoke after meeting with republican lawmakers. The best way to dismantle obamacare was discussed. And a lot of people have concerns on the fight over obamacare. We find out how it will affect you. That part of the story live at 4 30. Obamacare was the focus of the president elect, as well, today as he took to twitter to slam the law. In one tweet he writes republicans must be careful in that the democrats own the failed obamacare disaster with its poor coverage and massive premium increases. Another reads massive increases of obamacare will take place this year and demes are to blame for the mess. It will fall of its own wake. Be careful. President elect picked a former penn law professor of the securities and Exchange Commission today. Jay clayton is currently a wall street lawyer. He must be confirmed. The nominee for secretary of state is now cutting ties with exxonmobil to avoid a conflict. Rex tillerson has been an executive at the company for his entire career. Hell get a 180 million retirement package. He was scheduled to retire in march. Tillerson doesnt have any government or diplomatic experience. A conformation hearing is set for next week. Vice President Joe Biden let it slip hell spend time in philadelphia at the university of pennsylvania once hes out of office. Take a listen to his microphone that was still on last night. Did you catch that . The Vice President said hell be based at penn but hes not just working at penn. The vp is setting up a blind trust to continue the Cancer Research work he spearheaded. A Lehigh Valley farm is smoldering this afternoon after a massive fire burned across the property. Growers are trying to salvage any plants they can ahead of the busy spring season. We are in zionsville with the latest. Reporter more than 12 hours later, smoke still rises from the farm after latenight fire quickly turned into a massive blaze. Did. It was like a raging inferno. Reporter a hundred plus firefighters from four counties worked overnight trucking in water to the rural farm. The damage could reach a million dollars, but the cause remains unclear. What we do know is were thankful there was nobody hurt. Reporter the owners say the zionsville farm is a source of locally grown flowers and plants. The worst inside a planting and shipping warehouse. The company said much of what was lost was tiny bulbs of lilies and tulips as they were gearing up for easter and the spring season. In there were millions, probably, of bulbs for easter that were growing. So those are all gone. Reporter the farms retail shop in allentown is still open. They just finished up a busy Christmas Season and are hopeful the fire wont set back the easter rush. Im looking for flowers. Reporter loyal customers hope to see the farm rebuild. Its terrible for the greenhouse, obviously, but, you know, were all here to help them rebuild and hopefully theyll get back to where they were before. It does hurt. We know that were going to be better than we were before. And we know that god is going to see us through. Reporter in zionsville, nbc 10 news. Our first look at the south jersey father accused of killing his estranged wife and leading police on a twoweek manhunt. Jeremiah was arraigned on murder charges in Cumberland County today. Hes accused of stabbing terra oshea watson. The couples 12yearold son watched it happen. Their 4yearold was home at the time. Hes being held without bail and back in court on monday. Witnesses say weather played a role in this School Bus Accident in northeast philadelphia this morning. This was the scene at academy around the 8 00 a. M. An suv hit the side of the bus carrying students from first philly charter school. No one was seriously hurt. The suvs driver said the bus pulled out in front of him. Investigators are trying to cause a train to derail at the height of the mornings rush hour in new york city. The Long Island Railroad train hit a bumping track and the train went up and over the track. Passengers were shocked. All of a sudden, it just was a big boom boom and it just it just threw us out of our seats. Reporter more than a hundred people were hurt inside the Atlantic Terminal in brooklyn. None seriously. Todays derailment comes four months after the new Jersey Transit train crashed into the Hoboken Terminal after going over a bumper block. One woman was killed and more than a hundred hurt. Philadelphia police want to know who shot and killed a man inside his apartment in holmesburg. The victims girlfriend came home and found him dead in a bedroom around 10 00 last night. Investigators say a separate bedroom appears to have been ransacked. No signs of a break in. The girlfriend said the victim sometimes leaves the door unlocked. Atlantic city mayor is laying it on the table when it comes to the state of the struggling shore town. The message in his annual state of the city address resiliency. With the state take over, the citys finances are concerned that the police force could be cut. Nbc 10 jersey reporter was at todays address and will have more on the story at 5 00. The new year means new gear for the North WildwoodPolice Department beginning tomorrow every officer on patrol will be outfitted with brand new body cameras. You can see the two versions. The chest pocket camera and one on the belt loop. The body cams will be used along with dash cam videos. New details this afternoon in the conviction of former Pennsylvania Attorney general. Kanes attorney filed a motion yesterday that challenges the use of a special prosecutor to investigate the leak of grand jury material. Kane was sentenced to 10 to 23 months in jail in august but out of prison during her appeal process. Tonight parents in upp perk yeomen school district. It includes raising taxes more than 8 to pay for a new building. Renovating the existing building would cost more, they say. Emotional testimony today on the first day of sentencing for the man charged and convicted in the Charleston Church shooting. Today victims described their loved ones. Testified about hearing the gunshots. The widow of the pastor killed said she shoved her children under a desk in her husbands office once the shooting began. Dylann roof, who is white, killed nine black Church Members in 2015. Hes representing himself during the sentencing phase. He told the jury he would not lie and theres nothing wrong with him psychologically. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Two people are dead, including a 7yearold girl after this car crash in allentown. Nbc 10 was on the scene in south 4th around 11 00 lak night. Two other children were badly hurt. New developments this afternoon in the case of convicted cop killer abu jamaal. The state should provide new medication to treat his hepatitis c infection. The drugs can range from 50 to 75,000 per year. He spent 29 years on death row for shooting and killing Philadelphia Police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981. An Appeals Court reduced the sentence to life without parole. An energy giant about to put people to work in camden. Holtec will move into the facility next month. Some workers will come from the companys current facility in marlton. But the company is recruiting others from cam don. It builds parts for nuclear and solar powerplants around the world. Lots of buzzing today inside Tyler State Park. There you see why. Crews taking down old trees throughout the park. Many of the trees were damaged by a pesky beetle by the name of the emerald ash. Its not clear how long it will take. Parts of Tyler State Park will be closed while the work is being done. The sales tax in new jersey nearly doubled in several cities starting in 2017. This includes trenton, cam don, and bridgeton. Because of the urban Enterprise Zone Program was eliminated. Governor christie vetoed a bill that would have extended it for another decade. Workers started setting up the Pennsylvania Farm Show in harrisburg. Organizers say its the largest show of its kind in the nation with more than 10,000 exhibits and 6,000 animals that runs saturday through the 14th. Back to the first alert weather. A live look at i95. Get ready to see more delldot trucks on the road. Theyll be pretreating the roads in advance of what could be snow. It was so nice to see the sun back. Big changes are coming, right, glenn . Yeah, the temperature going down dramatically and the chance of snow is not much more than 24 hours away. Hard to believe at 52 degrees here. Its certainly too warm for snow now. Its upper 40s to near 50 elsewhere. Were seeing a lot of sunshine today. The wind is picking up. Look at these places reporting 15 to 20 Miles Per Hour winds. Those winds are out of the west. This is what it feels like now. 52 in philadelphia. Keep in mind. As we travel to the west, it feels like 19 in pittsburgh. Middle of the afternoon. See the arrow coming at us. If you think thats not cold enough, feels like 17 below in minneapolis. 14 below in bismarck. Again, those arrows coming straight in our direction. So we really are getting the arctic air. Its the coldest and longest lasting cold spell weve had so far this season. Gusting to 32 Miles Per Hour now in philadelphia. 30 in wilmington. And that arctic their is back to the west, its just going to settle over here. And its going to stay over here for a good while. Like i said, all the way into monday. So 54 so far for the high today. And our high tomorrow about 35 and thats the warmest its going to be as we go through the weekend. So thats quite a change. We have dry conditions right now, as we showed you earlier. You have to go way out to the west to see the next area of snow in the plains state. Hard to believe it would get here before midnight tomorrow night but its moving fast. The jet stream high up in the atmosphere is very, very strong. Theres 8 00 tomorrow night. Its still not here. But it goes through thursday night and pretty much out of here by friday morning. So that limits the amount of snow you can get. Theres another system thats going to be along the coast on saturday. This is going to be a stronger storm. A lot more moisture with it. As of now, the tract looks likety stays offshore. Southern delaware and extreme south jersey has the best chance of snow. And if some of that does come up, that could lead to a little bit more accumulation than what the models are showing now. Here is the one model showing pretty much a generalized inch or so out of the first system, thursday night. Maybe up to 2 inches in a couple of spots. And then by sunday you see were adding some snow to south jersey. Thats from the saturday system. When you combine the two, its obviously not big storms that were dealing with. We havent had much snow this season. As we go through the night tonight, watch the temperatures. Okay. Theyre going down into the 20s. Quaker town 24 degrees by awe 5 30. Then it doesnt go up much during the day. Its 25 at 10 00 a. M. Its 29 at 2 00 p. M. In philadelphia its 33 degrees. So it is a very cold day tomorrow. Especially compared to what we have seen today. And as far as the chances for snow, just about everybody has got a chance early, early friday and then on saturday the best chance is the jersey shore. And in delaware. 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